Making British Culture (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) - Softcover

Allan, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415890241 ISBN 13: 9780415890243

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott – that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.

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About the Author

David Allan is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. His other books include Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History (1993), Philosophy and Politics in Later Stuart Scotland: Neo-Stoicism, Culture and Ideology in an Age of Crisis, 1540-1690 (2000), Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment (2002), Adam Ferguson (2006) and A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415890241
• ISBN 13: 9780415890243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340